title: Native valve Escherichia coli endocarditis following urosepsis.
abstract: Gram-negative organisms are a rare cause of infective endocarditis. Escherichia coli, the most common cause of urinary tract infection and gram-negative septicemia involves endocardium rarely. In this case report, we describe infection of native mitral valve by E. coli following septicemia of urinary tract origin in a diabetic male; subsequently, he required prosthetic tissue valve replacement indicated by persistent sepsis and congestive cardiac failure.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nephrology, NU Trust, Bangalore, India.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Rangarajan
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ramakrishnan
authors.forename: K C
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Patro
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Devaraj
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Krishnamurthy
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kothari
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Satyaki
keywords: Escherichia coli; native valve endocarditis; urosepsis